"What is it (for instance) that you would find lacking in my computer were you to evaluate it for "intelligence"?
Computers are designed to reflect living processes but there some differences.
Cells are a self sustaining and growing life form. They use energy, organize, and consume food and they adapt to change. They reproduce, select from resources, and have defense mechanisms. They do this without needing to be plugged in or turned on by an external operator. Their operations and structures are more complex than we have the ability to think through using our brain's cognitive processes. Our brain is made up of these intelligent cells too. Think macro and micro intelligence.
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A cell is able to direct and make use of the other forces in nature like electricity, gravitation, the movements of water and wind, heat, cold, light and the different kinds of chemical action. A cell makes and uses heat to warm
up it habitations. It makes light to guide its actions and electricity for both offensive and defensive purposes.
The cell is a highly, organized and specialized animal that feels, feeds and performs all the functions of life. Nourishment is transformed into the body tissues and through different channels it leaves the body in precisely the same quantity as it entered, partly unmodified and in other form. No atom of matter has been lost.
Digestion is a chemical and mechanical process. The cells are compelled to comply with and take advantage of chemical forces, matte and energy. Every chemical process can be called a combustion. The cells must obtain heat or energy somewhere with which to produce the atomic changes and molecular disturbances or chemical
actions and changes desired. Without heat, the cell could not produce required fats, starches and sugars.
Plant cells use carbon, hydrogen, sulphur, phosphorous, chlorine, potassium, sodium, magnesia, etc. with the aid
of heat from the sun to build up material for future use. The plant cell must have fuel, air, heat and water when it is producing living structures. Plant cells use heat and energy of the sun as a power. The atmosphere contains oxygen, nitrogen, carbonic acid and ammonia. The soil contains silica, iron, lime, potash, phosphorous, sulphur and ammoniacal salts. The soil and atmosphere contain all the material which is found in plants and animals.
The cell itself is a colony of beings, organized to work together for the mutual benefit of all. Cells must have the faculty of memory, skill and intelligence to do things. Every cell in our body has this faculty of memory. There is a centrosome who is the general manager of the cell. There is also evidence of transference of physiological influences from cell to cell by means of protoplasmic bridges, showing that the nucleus in one cell may thus control the membrane - forming activity in an un nucleated fragment of another cell. Every cell must be an intelligent individual in order to be able to receive orders and execute them.
The cell possesses judgment and understanding and does nothing blindly. All cells of the body are possessed of intelligence just as the original cell which started the construction of the body. If a man is intelligent the cell must be. The cell is an a active living animal who mates, loves, feels, eats, drinks, breathes, jumps, moves and performs all the things that every animals does, that it, has the attributes of a living being.
Every cell is able to remember not only what it has experienced during its own life but also what took place in the immediate generation before it. The cell knows what it wants and what it is doing. The cells must be told in some way what to build and be able to communicate and understand each other very clearly or else they could not possibly work in harmony and have no one interfering with the other, but each producing what is required and nothing more.
Cells have the ability to adapt to what is required in any particular case that may arise. Cells are builders; they
are expert chemists, artists, sculptors and mathematicians and produce everything that we use for food and clothes and building material. However, nothing will be produced and maintained except what is necessary and for a purpose. The cells which line the stomach and intestines stick out their hands and grab those particles of food and building material that are required. They select and choose what is wanted and leave the other material alone.
Cells have all the five senses of humans and two more, psychic and physical sense. The forces of magnetism,
electricity, light, heat and motion follow fixed laws. The cells take advantage of these laws just as man does and
produces what it needs. The cell is a living conscious being.
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